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Meanings of actual starvation in English

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Usage of actual starvation in English
1
It is only the next remove, I am told, from actual starvation.
Lizzy Glenn; Or, The Trials of a Seamstress
2
With its help actual starvation was kept away, though it came very close.
The Life of Kit Carson: Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent and...
3
There they died in hundreds of actual starvation; it cannot have been quite so bad here.
With Buller in Natal, Or, a Born Leader
4
Between him and actual starvation there was the inconsiderable sum of eighteen-pence and the bookseller's advertisement.
The Life of George Borrow
5
A week later the actual starvation began.
A Man's Woman
6
Many die every winter from actual starvation.
American Institutions and Their Influence
7
The wanderers came to actual starvation.
Canada: the Empire of the North / Being the Romantic Story of th...
8
The suffering produced by hunger, when it becomes actual starvation, is far beyond anything that I can imagine.
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal / An Authentic Narrative of...
9
She knew that it was actual starvation that kept him eating; but he was greatly troubled in his mind.
Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp; Or, Lost in the Backwoods
10
Failing marriage, they not only suffered a cruel ignominy, but in many cases faced the menace of actual starvation.
In Defense of Women
11
They stand on their own feet, and yet-incase of severe illness or actual starvation-theold man is there!
The Riverman
12
Shelley's father was now fully convinced of his son's depravity, but doled out enough money to prevent actual starvation.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 / Little J...
13
At one time there were people dying of actual starvation in India, while men were burning unsalable wheat in America.
In the Days of the Comet
14
There is no doubt that many young ladies have induced conditions of serious disease by actual starvation of the system.
Plain Facts for Old and Young
15
Food of every kind became scarce, and of the poorer classes many were believed to have died of actual starvation.
The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
16
We read well-authenticated, only too well-authenticated, instances of actual starvation taking place in some wealthy district of a great city.
A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV
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